Perl books on tape

[wana]

The following link is to an answer by Mr. O'Reilly to a question that
I have had in my head for a while now. It appears to be 5 years old,
but I doubt that the answer has changed.

I have a long drive to and from work every day and I would like
nothing better than to immerse myself in learning about Perl and, if
necessary, other topics in software.

At least maybe there is a way to get the recordings that he does
mention were made and discontinued. Please let me know if there is
such a thing as lectures or books on tape about Perl.

Does O'Reilly sort of own Perl, the way Sun owns Java? No offense,
but it does seem that way to some degree. I have found lots of
interesting audio lectures in the past online from various
universities, but I was wondering if any such topic regarding Perl
would be subject to the permission of Larry Wall or O'Reilly. If not,
it is an opportunity open to the many experts out there.

How much could it cost to produce really? Sit at your computer and
record yourself spewing out Perl pearls for an hour at a time, package
into an mp3 and put up on your website for sale. If you're good,
people will buy.

If not, I may have to start taking the bus.

wana

http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2000/audio_0100.html

 

[Tad McClellan]

Does O'Reilly sort of own Perl, the way Sun owns Java?

No.

 

[wana]

wana> How much could it cost to produce really? Sit at your computer and
wana> record yourself spewing out Perl pearls for an hour at a time, package
wana> into an mp3 and put up on your website for sale. If you're good,
wana> people will buy.

I'd consider that sort of tape rather useless without the associated
graphics, unless it was Perl Poetry.

And I wouldn't want someone driving beside me listening to a tape on
Perl (even of me , and then flipping down to look at the graphics.

print "Just another Perl hacker,"; # the original

You're probably right. I have a tape series on American history and I
find myself rewinding over and over to get names and dates. I am more
of a visual learner, but I like to have cool stuff to listen to and I
am really hooked on Perl now.

I bought that AT&T natural voice thing for text-to-speech which is as
clear as it gets. Maybe I'll try putting some usenet text through it
to see how it sounds. I'll avoid as much code as possible since it
will sound funny.

How about a 'The Making Of My Perl Book' type program? or 'The
History Of My Hacking On Ancient Unix Systems'. I'm not implying that
you are old. You don't have to be that old to be able to write that
one.

The book, 'The Unix Philosophy' would work well on tape.

wana